Nootka is open-source application
to help with learning (also with teaching) classical score notation.
Mostly it is for guitarists,
but it can be used for ear training as well.Simply: users looks at piece of a score, plays it, Nootka is listening to it, checks and shows was it played well. All in real time.

Now Nootka is available for Android devices

Features:

interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
exercises with possibility to create own sets
accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
natural sound of guitars
clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand staff
analyze of results
different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning
Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish and Russian translations

Binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, MacOs and Android. Last changelog:

1.4.0
- new method to make random melodies more... melodic
- melody can be randomized from selected notes, i.e. pentatonic scale
- so added level with pentatonic scales
- solfege or letter note names can be selected during first run wizard
- improved look of sound views, better fit to high DPI screens
ANDROID
- reduced number of paint operations, works even 2-4 times faster
- volume settings and pitch preview can be invoked with volume keys
- settings menu entry is placed on the top menu label
- stop pitch detection when app is going background, restore when backs
BUGS FIXES
- fixed positioning of tips with question content
- other small fixes
Under the hood
- Android and Desktop code are in the single branch now

SeeLook

dglent

5 years ago

Probably in fedora. In Mandriva i don't know because they use rpm5 (instead rpm.org that use mageia and fedora)

I used this spec:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nootka/current/SPECS/nootka.spec?revision=280846&view=markup
normaly it will be included in the official repos of Mageia for the next version Mageia 3.

SeeLook

5 years ago

There is posibility to build 'universal' rpm but unfortinately I didn't put description in README.
If You invoke cpack -G RPM in build directory after compilation, You will get nootka's binary rpm, but as I understand, it is not pure distro way.
However You can have a look to nootka's sources, in packaging/rpm/nootka.spec.in there is template for this rpm.
Can You generate such rpm also, I will complete downloads.

It's great that nootka is going to be in official Mageia repositories. Maybe I will be ready with next stable release to that time.
Greetings!

dglent

5 years ago

I am not sure but i think that this rpm may be installed correctly in many rpm distro, as the files that installs are in "standard" paths. The problem is that i don't know other distro's packages policy and i cannot be sure for installation in other distros

1.4.0
- new method to make random melodies more... melodic
- melody can be randomized from selected notes, i.e. pentatonic scale
- so added level with pentatonic scales
- solfege or letter note names can be selected during first run wizard
- improved look of sound views, better fit to high DPI screens
ANDROID
- reduced number of paint operations, works even 2-4 times faster
- volume settings and pitch preview can be invoked with volume keys
- settings menu entry is placed on the top menu label
- stop pitch detection when app is going background, restore when backs
BUGS FIXES
- fixed positioning of tips with question content
- other small fixes
Under the hood
- Android and Desktop code are in the single branch now